450 search results for “life pollution” in the Student website
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Warm welkom voor nieuwe studenten tijdens EL CID
On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden at the 56th edition of EL CID.
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Assessing total environmental impact is becoming even more important
Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or production processes, and EU rules are going to make this even more important.
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Navigating the Unpredictable: Climate Chaos and the Future of Water
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Gerrit Dusseldorp joins Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme: ‘Archaeologists can provide the time-depth perspective’
With the retirement of Wil Roebroeks, Gerrit Dusseldorp will take his place as the archaeological representative in the Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme as an Associate Professor. An expert on the behaviour of early human hunter-gatherers, he will look at the interaction between humans and…
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Satellite data and algorithms reveal which ships emit excessive nitrogen
Ships are still emitting too much nitrogen oxide. Till now it has been impossible to measure this at sea, but that is set to change. Solomiia Kurchaba combined satellite data and developed algorithms to identify which ships are emitting too much. Kurchaba received her PhD on 11 June.
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders in the fight is alumnus Merijn Tinga. The university will have collection points for plastic bottles and is also supporting the Plastic Spotter citizen…
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Science for Sustainable Societies: a new bachelor’s programme
The new interdisciplinary bachelor's program in Science for Sustainable Societies starts in the 2025-2026 academic year.
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon
Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ and ‘evaluation frameworks’. This made debates more abstract and less ideological.
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‘Teaching is like a professional sport: you always have to be switched on’
For a long time, Thijs Bosker was an average student, until he discovered how exciting learning becomes when there are no ready-made answers. To his students, he passes on one key message: hope is the driving force that keeps us moving forward. They nominated him as Lecturer of the Year.
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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague
From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hague to get to know each other. Many of them come from abroad. ‘I actually dare to cycle here.’
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Student and entrepreneur: ‘PLNT The Hague is the place to find like-minded people’
Taking a Bachelor’s in Security Studies while starting and running two businesses: student Mohamed Sulaiman never stops. But he wouldn’t have it any other way. PLNT The Hague entrepreneurs’ hub is a source of help and inspiration.
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Leiden students develop AI tool for marking assignments
Jeroen van Gessel’s lecturers didn’t always have time for extensive feedback on his written assignments. So, together with tech-savvy friend Menno Hahury, he founded Eduface, a startup to develop an AI teaching assistant. ‘The first users now work three times faster.'
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Exhibition shows the ‘beauty and power’ of mathematics
In the ‘Imaginary’ exhibition, its curators show how society is made up of mathematics. From algorithms that save lives to ones that generate art. The exhibition is from 2 June to 25 July at Oude UB in Leiden.
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Thijs Bosker in the Media on Microplastics and Whale Poop
Several media published articles on the latest research from a team including Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor Environmental Sciences, last week. The research has shown that whales in the vicinity of Auckland New Zeeland consume three million microplastics a day.
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Student team wins Minecraft programming challenge
A programming competition in Minecraft? It really exists! And even better news: this time LIACS’ student team Mike's Angels achieved the first place! The team has been rewarded $500.
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows
Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, have a smaller positive effect than previously thought. Amatuni advises people to ‘pay attention to actual changes in their consumption behaviour rather…
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Lasse van den DikkenbergFaculty of Archaeology
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Maarten LubbersFaculty of Science
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Hanum AtikasariFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rudolf PoolmanFaculty of Medicine
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Syeda ShawkatFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Thijs van OschFaculty of Medicine
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Martine JagerFaculty of Medicine
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Sjoerd van der BurgFaculty of Medicine
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Anthony BrownFaculty of Science
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Rob NelissenFaculty of Medicine
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Anjali PanditFaculty of Science
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Francien DechesneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Roxanne KieltykaFaculty of Science
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Frederic LensFaculty of Science
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Annemieke VerbaasFaculty of Archaeology
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Nikki MulderFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Aimee BoyleFaculty of Science
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Jeroen CodeeFaculty of Science
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Ferry OssendorpFaculty of Medicine
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Christi van AsperenFaculty of Medicine
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Dennis ClaessenFaculty of Science
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Klaas VrielingFaculty of Science
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Carien CreutzbergFaculty of Medicine
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Dennis HetterscheidFaculty of Science
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Miranda SentseFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerard Persoon
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jelle GoemanFaculty of Medicine
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Maartje WitloxFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter DevileeFaculty of Medicine
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Ed KuijperFaculty of Medicine
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Martin TaphoornFaculty of Medicine
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Judith BovéeFaculty of Medicine
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